How To Install gmpc-plugins on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmpc-plugins on Ubuntu.

What is `gmpc-plugins`

gmpc-plugins is:

gmpc-plugins is a set of plugins that enhance functionality of the GNOME Music Player Clients. Plugins are:

alarm, allows basic events to be scheduled
avahi, zeroconf profile scanning
awn, integration with Avant Window Navigator
lyrics, a lyrics fetcher from multiple sources
mmkeys, GNOME multimedia key-binding integration
shout, stream shout-cast

There are three methods to install gmpc-plugins on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gmpc-plugins Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gmpc-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gmpc-plugins

Install gmpc-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gmpc-plugins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gmpc-plugins

Install gmpc-plugins Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gmpc-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gmpc-plugins

How To Uninstall gmpc-plugins on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the gmpc-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gmpc-plugins

Uninstall gmpc-plugins And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gmpc-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gmpc-plugins

Remove gmpc-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove gmpc-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gmpc-plugins

Remove gmpc-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gmpc-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gmpc-plugins

Dependencies

gmpc-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

gmpc-plugins website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gmpc-plugins package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.